Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath

Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath
Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath
Born	5 January 1944 (age 80); Perumbavoor, Ernakulam, Kerala
Occupation	music director
Years active	1987-present

Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath (Malayalam: പെരുമ്പാവൂർ ജി. രവീന്ദ്രനാഥ്) is an Indian musician from Kerala. He is well known as a carnatic musician as well as a composer. He lives in Thiruvananthapuram now, though hails from Perumbavoor, Ernakulam. His works always have the deep-rooted carnatic touch in it.^[1]

Composer

Raveendranath has rendered music to many films in Malayalam such as Innale, Sneham, and Thoovanathumbikal.^[2] He won the Kerala State Film Award for the best music director for the Padmarajan directed movie Innale.^[3] He teamed up with K. J. Yesudas for Tharangani studio to create some of the best devotional albums in Malayalam. His album Thrimadhuram is one such album.

Early life

Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath was born to Adv. V. R. Gopalapillai and Bhargaviamma in the town of Perumbavoor in the present-day Ernakulam district on 5 January 1944, as their youngest son. He lost his father when he was one and a half years old. He has completed his bachelor's in chemistry from Sree Sankara College Kalady. He is married to Shobha Menon and has got 2 children.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Thoovanathumbikal 1987
Vadakagunda 1988
Panchali 1989
Innale 1990
Bharathi Nagar May-9 1990
Post Box No. 27 1991
Vasudha 1992
Ayalathe Adheham 1992
Alanchery Thambrakkal 1995
Aksharam 1995
Chitrasalabham 1998
Sneham 1998
Sayahnam 2000
Thandavam 2002
Vasantha Malika 2003
Vasanthathinte Kanal Vazhikalil 2014
Randam Yaamam Uncategorized
Poomaram 2018

Awards

1990 - Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director - Innale
1994 - Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award^[4]
2017 - Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship^[5]

References

^ "I have my own style of rendering". The Hindu. 11 July 2008. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
^ "Malayalam Songs Composer - Perumbavoor G Ravindranath". Malayalasangeetham.info. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
^ "Kerala State Film Awards". The Information & Public Relations Department of Kerala. Archived from the original on 19 November 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
^ "Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award: Light Music". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
^ "Sangeetha Nataka Akademi awards announced". The Hindu. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

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[1] "I have my own style of rendering". The Hindu. 11 July 2008. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2009.

[2] "Malayalam Songs Composer - Perumbavoor G Ravindranath". Malayalasangeetham.info. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.

[3] "Kerala State Film Awards". The Information & Public Relations Department of Kerala. Archived from the original on 19 November 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.

[4] "Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award: Light Music". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. Retrieved 26 February 2023.

[5] "Sangeetha Nataka Akademi awards announced". The Hindu. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

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v t e Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director
1969–1980	G. Devarajan (1969) G. Devarajan (1970) V. Dakshinamoorthy (1971) G. Devarajan (1972) K. Raghavan M. B. Sreenivasan (1973) M. S. Viswanathan (1974) Bhaskar Chendra Varker (1975) A. T. Ummer (1976) K. Raghavan (1977) M. B. Sreenivasan (1978) None (1979) Jerry Amaldev (1980)
1981–2000	M. B. Sreenivasan (1981) Johnson (1982) Shyam (1983) Shyam (1984) G. Devarajan (1985) Bombay Ravi (1986) Ouseppachan (1987) G. Aravindan (1988) Johnson (1989) Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath Jerry Amaldev (1990) Raveendran (1991) Bombay Ravi (1992) S. P. Venkatesh (1993) Berny-Ignatius (1994) Ilaiyaraaja (1995) Vidyasagar (1996) Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri (1997) Vidyasagar (1998) Sunny Stephen (1999) Vidyasagar (2000)
2001–present	M. G. Radhakrishnan (2001) Raveendran (2002) M. Jayachandran (2003) M. Jayachandran (2004) M. G. Radhakrishnan (2005) Ramesh Narayan (2006) M. Jayachandran (2007) M. Jayachandran (2008) Mohan Sithara (2009) M. Jayachandran (2010) Sharreth (2011) M. Jayachandran (2012) Ouseppachan (2013) Ramesh Narayan (2014) Ramesh Narayan (2015) M. Jayachandran (2016) M. K. Arjunan (2017) Vishal Bhardwaj (2018) Sushin Shyam (2019) M Jayachandran (2020) Hesham Abdul Wahab (2021)